Our Humblest Apologies While we're begging forgiveness for slavery, genocide and other assorted sins of our ancestors , there are a few other offenses that Virginians should express contrition for.   Happy New Year, Culture Warriors. We're making progress.   York County public schools acknowledged the official U.S. and Virginia holiday of Christmas this year, a strong step up thanks to activist, concerned citizens.   Christians are not letting go of William and Mary’s arbitrary cultural cleansing of the cross from the Wren Chapel. Conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza hopes to debate President Gene Nichol, or another William and Mary representative, at a campus forum on Feb. 1. Read more here.   But the same liberals who decried the Marriage Amendment last year as a distraction from the serious governance of Virginia want the General Assembly to pass a resolution apologizing for slavery and to the Indians. This is so funny.   Or it would be if the liberals weren't making it a wedge vote to depict opponents as racists and secret slavers (who no doubt say "macaca" in secret meetings).   You can’t apologize for something you didn’t do, unless you just lie. That's not hard for liberals because they don’t recognize absolute truth, but it should be difficult for Virginia legislators, even the Democrats. Most Virginians expect better than intellectually dishonest, symbolic, sophistry from the General Assembly.   It’s even more dishonest because the 400th anniversary of slavery in Virginia isn’t until 2019. The liberals are rushing it by 12 years to cash in on the attention of Jamestown.   Apologizing for something you didn’t do to people who aren’t alive is ridiculous.   I think I’ll apologize for the Muslim attacks on every neighbor since the Hegira. Yes, I apologize for every Muslim genocide since 627 AD. And every invasion.  And every battle, massacre, forced conversion and oppression of Christians and Jews (and pagans, Buddhists and Hindus).   In case any Republicans are so clueless or cowardly to go along with a resolution mocking good government and commonsense, here is a draft of what the Resolution should be.   Virginia’s Apology to Black Virginians   Be It Resolved, We apologize for:   • the Muslims who ran the slave trade in Africa and still traffic in black African slaves – when they are not committing genocide against black Africans.   • the black African tribes who raided and sold fellow blacks into slavery.   • the Yankees and Brits who got rich transferring the black Africans in slave ships that killed so many persons.   • the Virginians who introduced the black Africans to technology which leap-frogged them over 2000 years forward from their former miserable state.   • the Virginians who presented the Good News of Jesus Christ to black Africans – bringing eternal salvation to generations and a life-changing transformation of the human heart for the best thing there is – Christianity in a personal relationship with God.   • sharing the ideas of freedom and opportunity which is now black political thought and culture. And so today’s leading intellectuals, Conservatives all, are black.   • the Virginians who freed their slaves over the years.   • the free blacks and Indians who owned slaves.   • the black Virginians who defended Virginia against armed invaders in over 2000 combats on Virginia soil. And the 6 out of 7 black slaves who never left home after invading Armies conquered, but worked to provide for their families and the soldiers in the field.   • the black Virginians who died of starvation or hunger–related diseases following the Yankee war crimes of burning The Valley, destroying farms in Mosby’s Confederacy and across the Commonwealth   • the Democrat Party which championed slavery, segregation and racism -- and still promotes the racism of lowered expectations, race-based privilege with affirmative action quotas and set asides for ‘diversity’.   • the race-pimp politicians who make a living out of the color of their skin and saying blacks are victims -- weaklings whose black ancestors, real men and women, would punch in the face.   • the entertainers, cowards in the church, and all who profit from the sub-culture’s coin but don’t change it so more than two out of three black babies are born out of wedlock and on the road to failure... for the inability to demand men marry women and stay married to father children – work hard, not abuse alcohol, use drugs or engage in the social pathologies so that blacks kill blacks more than the Klan ever did.   • the actual black Virginians, themselves – who in the whole history of the world… NEVER has one group of people lifted itself so far, so fast, so high, so well, with such dignity over such hurdles from 1865 to the 1960s – and without an apology from the people who actually owned slaves or instituted Jim Crow segregation.   • bringing people out of Africa and, as Booker T. Washington said, “Up From Slavery,” instead of letting them stay in Africa where they could live in the basket case countries mired in poverty, disease, and dictators, tribal war, and violence.   Virginia’s Apology to Amer-Indian Virginians   Be It Resolved, We apologize for:   • your massacres of white and black men, women, children.   • signing a treaty with the Pamunkey and Chickahominy to protect you from the Delaware Indians who were going to kill all of you.   • the children, cattle and horses you stole in raids.   • bringing you from the Stone Age to the most modern society in the world.   • the Virginians who presented the Good News of Jesus Christ to Amer-Indians – bringing eternal salvation to generations and a life-changing transformation of the human heart for the best thing there is – Christianity in a personal relationship with God.   • not putting you on reservations where government- sponsored socialism destroys the soul and shortens lives in alcoholism and despair.   • not demeaning your sub-culture and robbing fellow citizens who can least afford it with tax-free gambling dens.   • assimilating you as Virginians for over 300 years in Tidewater and 200 years in the western parts of the Commonwealth.   Happy Lee-Jackson Day (Jan 12th) and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan 15th)! Fight the good fight for all Virginians.   -- January 8, 2007